Word: denser
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most solids are denser than their corresponding liquids; for example, an iron nail sinks to the bottom of a cauldron of molten iron...
...this year the Fourth was different. The fireworks seemed more brilliant, the crowds denser and more celebratory. Americans' sense of pride in their nation seemed clearer and surer than it has in a long time. This year the fireworks appeared to suggest a large and complicated and real sense of shared pleasure in the nation and what it represents. They shot up over New York harbor and the Washington Monument and Boston and Philadelphia and Chicago and St. Louis and San Francisco and thousands of town squares and picnic grounds across the nation. The projectiles fired up and burst...
...made by Fellow Exile Alexander Solzhenitsyn in his 1978 Harvard speech: materialism is softening up the West for the triumph of Communism. By contrast, there are no hidden homilies in Aksyonov's multilevel, 230,000-word novel, The Burn, which Random House will publish later this year. A denser, darker work than The Island, The Burn reflects the author's searing experience as the child of victims of Stalin's great purges. It also powerfully evokes another subject proscribed in Soviet fiction since Stalin's day: sex. It is a fact of life made frightening...
...speculate for half a sentence too long about where the truth may lie. A single reservation is in the matter of scale. In The New Yorker, these articles seemed exhaustive; in the book, some of them are disappointingly brief. The same illusion of time slowed and prose made denser is observable in even the best of the magazine's longer fact articles, which can seem interminable when becalmed among ads for Jaguars and diamond earrings, and then are transformed unedited into brisk 180-page books...
When it dipped ever so slightly over certain areas of Venus, the scientists concluded that it was flying over denser regions that exerted a greater gravitational tug on the ship.) In addition, radar reconnaissance showed material radiating from Beta that looked uncannily like recent lava flows...